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Cast Size: Medium (11 to 20 performers)
Cast Type: Children
Character Breakdown
Willy Wonka
The sly, charming star of the show. Lithe, eccentric. His larger than life persona can go from charming and comical, to magically mysterious and dark.
Gender: male
Vocal range top: G4
Vocal range bottom: A2
Charlie Bucket
Sweet, smart, hopeful and loving. A boy with wonderful innocence and vulnerability.
Gender: male
Vocal range top: F5
Vocal range bottom: G#3
Grandpa Joe
Impish. He is Charlie's imaginative, fun, kind and loving grandfather. After many years being confined to a bed, his childish energy returns when Charlie finds the Golden Ticket.
Gender: male
Vocal range top: G4
Vocal range bottom: G#2
Mrs. Bucket
Charlie's warm and kind-hearted mother. Worrier. Generous and loving.
Gender: female
Vocal range top: E5
Vocal range bottom: G3
Grandma Josephine
Gender: female
Vocal range top: D5
Vocal range bottom: C4
Grandma Georgina
Gender: female
Vocal range top: E5
Vocal range bottom: Ab3
Grandpa George
Gender: male
Vocal range top: E4
Vocal range bottom: F2
Mrs. Gloop
Augustus's German, moronic, Wagnerian mother. Mirthlessly smiles as though it were affixed to the front of her face.
Gender: female
Vocal range top: D5
Vocal range bottom: Bb3
Augustus Gloop
Gender: male
Vocal range top: G5
Vocal range bottom: Bb3
Mr. Salt
Veruca's goofy, eccentric, distracted, hilarious father. Finds it impossible to say no, giving in to every ridiculous demand his daughter makes.
Gender: male
Vocal range top: Ab4
Vocal range bottom: Ab2
Veruca Salt
Gender: female
Vocal range top: Db5
Vocal range bottom: Ab4
Mr. Beauregarde
Violet's ineffectual father. Ignores his back-talking, insult-hurling daughter.
Gender: male
Vocal range top: G4
Vocal range bottom: F#3
Violet Beauregarde
Confident, forward, and full of attitude.
Gender: female
Vocal range top: F#5
Vocal range bottom: C#4
Mike Teavee
A fireplug with a ridiculous amount of energy.
Gender: male
Vocal range top: Bb4
Vocal range bottom: G3
Mrs. Teavee
She needs amphetamines to get through the day and deal with her outrageous son. Tense, extreme, and hilarious.
Gender: female
Vocal range top: Eb5
Vocal range bottom: G3
Mrs. Green
Jerry
Cherry
Ensemble